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Mayamas

Mayamas
مياماس
Miyamas
Village
Mayamas is located in Syria
Mayamas
Mayamas
Coordinates: 32°37′00″N 36°41′24″E / 32.61667°N 36.69000°E / 32.61667; 36.69000
Grid position308/225 PAL
Country Syria
GovernorateSuwayda
DistrictSuwayda
SubdistrictSuwayda
Population
 (2004 census)
 • Total
2,525
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Mayamas (Arabic: مياماس) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Mayamas had a population of 2,525 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.

History

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In 1596 the village appeared under the name of Mimas in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya in the qadaa of Hauran. It had a population of 4 households, all Muslim, who paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat (350 a.), barley (180 a.), summer crops (60 a), goats and beehives (6 a.); the taxes totalled 650 akçe.[2]

Religious buildings

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  • Maqam al-Kilmah (Druze Shrine)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 220

Bibliography

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